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Hi I am looking for a book about an older lady who adopts a dog she sees in a pet shop window. The dogs name is something like Ivor Sherpherdsmoor Bridlebrook the 3rd. It’s a heartwarming story and was read to a friend of mine in the 90s in South Africa. It’s likely in English and a picture book – but could have other variations. Please help me I would love to get the book for them as a gift!
I thought of ‘Me Two’ by Mary C. Ryan and ‘Konrad’ by Christine Nöstlinger.
Konrad! That’s it, thank you SO much!
No problem! Absolutely charming book.
Hi! I’m looking for a childrens book from the 1970s (possibly early 80s but more likely mid- to late 70s). The plot is about a boy who mail orders a robot, he waits for it, when it comes he assembles it. I vaguely remember his parents had a role in the story, and I think the robot was another boy who became his friend.
Thanks in advance for any help on this one.
Hi! I’m looking for a rhyming counting book. The first lines are something like “One shiny apple falling from the tree…Two [something something] looking at me.” #9 is about kittens going down to sleep and 10 is about stars I think.
I am looking for a children’s book set in the winter. I remember the children either flying or ending up in the clouds somehow. They pull a cloud back, and the regular snow turns into a magical colorful/multicolored snow coming down on the town where they live. I think the next part involves people coming out of houses out to see the colorful snow. The illustrations were artistic, like paintings. My sister vaguely remembers the book too but cannot remember the title either.
Hi please help, I’m looking for the title, writer of a UK short illustrated children’s book late 70s, possibly early 80s, about a boys mother making jam tarts while he helps her, and then he pretending to be asleep but secretly eating some of the tarts.
Many thanks in advance.
Hi! I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book, probably from the 80s. What I remember is children looking out from a window, but the outside settings/surrounding changes, it becomes a cockpit at some point, and at one point they are at the north pole observing natives and walruses.. that’s all I have. Anyone? <3
Hi all! I’ve been searching for this book for 5+ years, anyone who knows it has my undying gratitude: it is an older illustrated children’s book, and the part I remember is that there is a train engineer who takes a nap under a tree while the train is parked. The steam valve is making noise so he puts his lunch bag/pail over it, which causes the train to explode. Anyone know this one?
Thanks!!
Hi. I am looking for a children’s picture book from the 80s/early 90s (UK). It was about a tour group being led through a haunted castle and in each room one of the guests would get bumped off by a werwolf or a vampire (who was in a wardrobe) until there was no one left but the tour guide. The final page was the tour guide thanking everyone for coming (but no one was there) and his arm is revealed to be a skeleton arm. A little macabre for children’s story book but I have been trying to find it again for years! My mum refuses to believe she ever bought anything that scary for us a children!
Mopsy and Topsy at the Zoo
Hi there,
I’m looking for a book that I used to read over and over from the library when I was little (early 2000s) but the book may have been older. It was about a girl named Josie,who went to the seaside to stay with her grandparents I think,and there may have been a lighthouse? I’m a bit vague sorry,but would love it if anyone had any suggestions on what it might be, because it was my favourite!
Hi, I’m looking for author/title details for a children’s book/tv series (UK), probably 1970s, about a girl trying to rescue a trapped wizard. She has a box of mechanical animals etc to help her. There is a mechanical owl.
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book that I read in the 70s. It was a collection of fairy tales and included (as I recall) The Little Matchgirl and also a story about a fire princess and rain/fog prince who fell in love – a little boy who stayed home while his mother worked became friends with them and helped them to come together. The illustrations were very colorful and beautiful. I seem to remember the cover having a velvet-brown background with characters from the stories on it. It was a hardcover. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thank you!
I looking for an old storybook whose title and author I forgot. The book is about three dogs called Mopsy Bopsy and Topsy that go on a picnic and have misadventures.
Appreciate anyone who can help with title and author
Been thinking of the book for decades. It’s from the 70s and is about a couple who wanted move, because they didn’t like their home anymore. So the started cleaning and fixing their house to sell. I remember they put up a picket fence and took all there dishes outside for the rain to clean them. At the end, they realized they loved their home again and decided to stay. Thank you!!!
You’re welcome!
Hi! I am searching for an old children’s book (2000,s). It was about a bunny babysitter who had to babysit two bunnies while the parents were away. I remember they ate all the cookies from the cookie jar that they weren’t supposed to eat. They also made a huge mess in the kitchen, it was a pinkish orange soup that they made for dinner. Please help me find this book, I want to buy it for my new born.
Old Mother Witch, by Carol Carrick.
Thank you 🙂
The Village That Slept?
Thank you-so similar but that’s not it!
Some interesting children’s books at the Getman Virtual Fair, a fundraiser for an elementary school in NYC. https://getmansvirtual.com/category/childrens-books We are booth 23. It runs today, Saturday and tomorrow.
Hi! I’m searching for an old book I read in the 80’s in the UK. It was second hand paperback and set in post-war France or Spain. Centred around 2 girls who play house in abandoned flats and later find a baby there. It’s driving me mad!
As I’ve been invited to repost my queries since the forum switch lost all the answers, and the forum apparently won’t allow me to repost them, I’m going to try different wording instead. One of the books I’m searching for was a Halloween themed one in which a boy dressed in a green cat costume is dared while trick or treating to sneak up to an old woman’s house. He accidentally discovers she’s apparently dead, but fortunately the hospital later confirms it was just a heart attack. The next day she leaves a bag of cookies with a thank you note on his doorstep. Anyone please know the book’s name?
I’m looking for a children’s book featuring Mr Odkin , he wanted a car not a Rolls , any old car will do
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book about
A girl named (she thinks) Sally who is American and somewhat average probably with blonde hair
A French girl with a poodle who is somewhat sophisticated
Either they become stepsisters and have adventures together or they live near to each other and have adventures together
there were a few pen and ink illustrations
Patron read this book approximately 1960’s
Hello. I’m looking for a children’s book probably from the 90s. There’s a group of little girls and each girl wears a different color. Each girl has a baby companion/sidekick. The girls have a picnic one day and one of them gets lost. I think she falls into a tree trunk but I’m hazy on that part. Her friends find her baby companion crying and it leads them to where their friend is being kept by some kind of trolls and they save her.
I was able to go back five years in your comment history, from before we moved the site. I have all your comments copied on an email so if you send a request to my email, I’ll send them to you. Thanks, I didn’t know I could do that! Suzanne
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When I first looked at the history, it said that some comments had been moved (posted) or removed but when I returned to the History it did not specify. I did compare the comments retrieved with the ones still on Disqus and we seem to have all the plot summaries. I think the removed comments were just duplicates.
Thanks so much for writing back… you will make someone else happy! Suzanne
This was a little Disqus glitch, but a guest had made a query and answered it
My mom just found the book! It’s called Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails. The book I was thinking of was “Silkypup Saves the Day”
Guestlast week
Hi ! I’m new to this site but as far as I understand I just post the book description and see if y’all can help me find it?
Well, here’s what I remember: Some kind of princess or just a pretty girl (I imagine as blonde but idk if there were pictures or I just imagined it) who has a cat and has a great life. This other lady (has black hair I think) hates her and gives her a poisoned rainbow comb to kill her. But I think the cat warns her the comb is poisoned so she confronts the lady about it and they become friends. I feel like it’s called princess pretty and the rainbow comb … But I cant find anything online. Any leads?
If anybody can help me with this please do i am going insane. its an old book a kids book little golden style backing about a cat whos owners are repainting the kitchen and all day she cant find her milkbowl and eventually they give it back and shes happy
Hello! I don’t have to much info on this book series, but hopefully someone can help!
It’s a children’s chapter book series with three sisters whose parents are traveling dancers and so they leave them with their nanny, and the girls work on getting their nanny to get with a guy they know ( I think it their neighbor.) that’s literally all I remember and I don’t if it’s all correct!
Hopefully someone can help. Thanks!
Agree with Suzanne, Miss Suzy (and the other Parents’ Magazine Press books sold by mail order) did not have dust jackets.
Try this: The Book Mice, by Tony Knowles.
You can purchase a copy of Miss Suzy’s 50th directly from purplehousepress.com and there is also an inexpensive 40th on ABE from an ABAA dealer. I’m not sure if this was issued with a jacket. There don’t seem to be any 1sts in jacket of the Peet’s you mentioned except our copy of Whingdingdilly. It’s also on our website, oldchildrensbooks.com, but you may not like the title page enhancements! This site is really for IDing books, not buying them, but the Peets are so hard to find I got interested in trying to track them down!
Thank you, Suzanne! I know, some of the Peets have been hard to find–esp. collectible ones. Nonetheless, I will take your suggestions for gifts and sharing these great books with nieces and nephews!
They drank tomato juice? Where? At a party? A lot of ladies, or just a couple?
Was it a funny story?
A long shot: Mystery in the Night Woods, by John Peterson.
Hi, Book Lovers! I am looking for these four books in first print and with DJ:
1. Bill Peet’s “Randy Dandy Lions,” “the Whingdingdilly,” and “the Any and the Elephant.” (USA, Houghton M.)
2. Mariam Young’s “Miss Suzy” in the 40th Anniversary edition from Purple Press (Arnold Lobel is the illustrator).
Thanks you for any leads!
Sorry, Sophie, if I am too late. For the animal books, I suggest any of the many Bill Peet books (http://www.billpeet.net) starting animals (most of them). There is one with Zebra (Zach, Zella and Zodiac), some with elephants (Ella, Eleanor, Goliath II, and the Elephant & the Ant), lions, a giraffe, a squirrel, cats, dogs, bighorn sheep, bears, a caboose, a moose, dragons, rabbits, a camel, etc. I believe and hope you will find Bill Peet (he was a Disney artist and storyman for nearly 30 years among other things) and his stories/writing/art to be quite special. He inspired me to become a teacher, story-teller and writer.
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book. I read this book in a school library in the early to mid 2000’s, so published before that. It was solid red with the title on the spine. The main characters were an animal (I can’t remember maybe bunnies/rabbits, or some kind of furry critter). It was about a mother and her child and they were going to go on a picnic. So they or just the child’s picks up items at the market, the item that I remember are cookies with a jam center. The child goes to a grassy hill to meet the mom but bullies and a storm rolls in. The bullies are threatening the picnic or making fun of the child and then the mom uses the picnic blanket as a parachute to come and save the child from the bullies. Thank you!!
This sounds a little bit like The Story of the Snow Children by Sybille Von Offers, but I’m not 100% sure.
Hello!
Been looking for years for a collection of books, I think there were four. Each book taught a different lesson.
The book in particular i’m looking for was about a giraffe and a pig and some other animals who shared a house, the pig was very messy and lazy and the giraffe fell down the stairs after tripping over a roller shake the pig left at the top of the stairs. Eventually the pig learns to be considerate of others and cuts a hole in the roof so the giraffe fits comfortably in the house.
One of the other books was about pirates and mermaids and treasure, I believe this lesson was about greed. If this helps!
Hello all, I had this children’s book in the late nineties/very early 2000s. It was a book depicting the four seasons relative to how animals adapted to them. There was a section for each season and for example would have illustrations as well as commentary depicting the rabbit going into its burrow or the birds coming out on their branches and singing for spring. I have looked up and found every book relevant to the changing seasons and animals that Google could show me and still no dice. The book could’ve been published much earlier as I most likely received it as a hand-me-down from my grandmother who would collect things and redistribute them to family or those in need. It was such a charming and comforting book and I would love to get my hands on the book again, or at least the title!! Thank you so much.
Play With Me, by Marie Hall Ets.
Looking for an old childrens “bedtime” stories book. It is at least early 70’s, quite possibly earlier. It is similar to wind in the willows but all the animals are night creatures.. a bat, an owl etc..
Hi, I’m looking for a book that I read in the early 2000’s. It was a picture book about a rat (possibly a different rodent) where he starts by admiring the clean pages before spilling ink on the page and leaving a footprint. He then attempts to clean up he mess only to make it progressively worse until the page is full of ink. Does anyone know this book? I can’t find it anywhere
The Chalk Giraffe, by Kirsty Paxton.
Greetings. I am looking for a children’s picture book about a little girl who wants the animals to be her friend. She calls to them to play with her but none will come close. I think there is a bird, a turtle, a snake, maybe a fox. But then she sits quietly, near a pond or stream, and the little animals come close. I recall the color yellow as predominant – – her dress, maybe.
This book name is driving me doolally! I read it as a child in the early to mid 90s so it was written prior to or around then. It was written from the perspective of a person drawing a giraffe; the giraffe then tells the author that he needs to be coloured in, so on the next page he is coloured in. The giraffe then asks for things things like hills and pretty scenery, and was lonely so needed friends. The “author” would then draw things for the giraffe like background, something to eat (hay I think), and friends, including a ladybird who the giraffe said was nice but too small, and other animals who were not appropriate. I think at the end the author draws another giraffe for the original giraffe to be friends with. Thank you!
I’m looking for a book that is about animals (like zebra, elephant, giraffe, and maybe a cow, etc) who are friends doing a sleepover (I think) in a huge treehouse. They were talking about something and one of the animal’s parent came up to say good night and I believe the ending was the parent smiling at the end looking at the treehouse (I could be wrong about the ending).
And another book I’m looking for is a story about african history, it was about a journey how the slaves escaped to their freedom. They heard rumors on how to find the clues/trails to escape. I remember two particular parts which I thought it was haunting…they had to look for a red (I think) blanket on the roof to know it was a safe house. Another one is at the ending, they saw a train in a blue sky and people were singing about freedom.
Going to Town, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Going to Town, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Hello, I’m looking for a book that was published in the early 2000s of 90s. The book starts off with the mother curling her two daughters hair in preparationof their visit to town, it’s possible that one has black hair the other blonde. Fast forward its the morning time and mother takes out the tools she used to set the curls, the family gets dressed and heads to town. The girls each get a sweet heart candy with little messages from the candy store. Fast forward the family of 5; mother, father, the two girls and little brother takes a walk to get a good stop for a family picnic. That’s what I remember. Please help.
Looking for a children’s book of
Short stories from early 1950s
1 story was about a girl named
Genevieve. Another story was about
Tomato juice drinking ladies
Thank you
It was a large format book with
Pictures
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s picture book read sometime between 1989-1995. Could have been published in the 70s, 80s, or early 90s. A little boy sails away from his mother in a box and lands on an island inhabited by a two-headed troll. He is reunited with his mother in the end. Thanks!
Hi. How about a 1980s flat green or red oversized book which begins with lovely drawings of a husband whose wife leaves something behind as they embark on a train trip. He goes to find it and must run up on the train, late, to catch it.
On the train is a thief whose face we never see, but we spy his trench coat from time to time. He likes to steal purses.
Hello there. Looking for a book my Mom read me when I was younger. In the late 90s/early 2000s. It was about a girl who I think had brown hair and she for some reason was alone. All the sudden a bunch of tiny princesses came down from the sky and played with her. I think they might have even gave the little girl tiny little kisses. I think the princesses were in bubbles or snowflakes. Any help would be appreciated.
Hello! I’m looking for a picture book, I believe from sometime in the 90’s, about a little blonde dog that has to travel via airplane to visit her owner, or maybe their family. I think her name was Darcy, and the copy I had was a small hardcover with the puppy in front of the airport. I thought the title was something like, “Darcy, the airport pup” or something similar, and I think I remember her carrying a little backpack too.
Hello, I am looking for a children’s book with a rat (I think) who lives in a hole in (maybe) the desert and has a friend who has a tunnel that connects his hole to the rat’s? I am very hazy on most of these details and may be misremembering. I also seem to recall a white moth that whispers or speaks quietly to the rat. Thank you!
Hi: I’m looking for a book that I read as a child in the UK in the 1970s. the story is a romance between two plates; one from the kitchen service and one from the dinner service: it leads to all out war between the two sets of crockery and silverware, which naturally leads to the dinner service being replaced. At some point the lovers meet in a garden shed where an old cracked teapot and mug hide them. It’s all very Romeo and Juliet, but the lovers end up together in the attic of the house. I have a vague memory that moonlight was part of the title, but I can’t be sure. I’d be grateful for any help.
Thanks
Rick
Hello! Im trying to find a children’s book we read in the 90s or early 2000s with a peacock. It has great kind of watercolor illustrations and a windy storm at one point, but thats all I remember.
Great! Thanks for posting back.
Found this on a list of books featuring peanut butter:
Alexander, Sue. WORLD FAMOUS MURIEL AND THE MAGIC MYSTERY. Muriel uses delicious peanut butter cookies to lure a magician out of hiding.
YES!!!! IVE BEEN LOOKING FOREVER FOR THIS!! THANK YOU!!
Hello. I am looking for a book my grandmother had. I don’t remember much. It had a woman that was hiding something like protecting it. I remember feeling like it was her child but I don’t think it was an actual child. The woman was very afraid that something bad would happen. At one point in pretty sure she puts “it” in the cupboard. I want to say at the end they go outside and play but I’m not sure. She was a trap thin lady. The pictures were black and white.
Looking for a children’s book from the late 80’s/early 90’s that had snowcat trucks that maybe were brothers and sisters? One of them got stuck in the snow and the other truck pulled it out with a winch. At the end, they all ride off together. There weren’t any people in the book. The main character snowcat gets stuck and is rescued. It was very late 80’s looking where the trucks were sort of boxy looking. The trucks were illustrated in a way where the sun was making them look like they would have been glimmering in real life.
Solved on another board:
“Pretty Ugly” from Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids, edited by Art Spiegelman
Looking for a book from the 80s where the girl dressed up possibly for Halloween has fog (as a frog?). The fog looked like her complete with her glasses? Does this sound familiar to anybody?
Hi – I’m looking for a YA or kids book from the 80’s. The girl dressed up as fog (with her glasses). She was going to scare someone in the neighborhood because they thought she was strange. Help!
childrens book about monsters and the girl monsters makes a scary face thats a perfect little girl and she keeps being told that she should stop because it’ll get stuck but she kept doing it and it did get stuck and she gets made fun of for it and she runs crying and her grandma comes to say its okay beauty is about whats inside and then she turns herself inside out and shes beautiful because of her insides. It was a picture book similar to the style of Ted Arnold’s Parts
I am looking for a book, where at one point there was a girl who was eating loads of cookies, I thought I remembered them to be peanut butter cookies and there being stacks everywhere. I thought it had to do with a magician and rabbits as well.
There may have been a library at some point and a trap door.. I don’t know. But it’s been itching my brain.
There is a golden book version of the ‘The Lion’s Paw’ by Jane Werner Watson and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. All the animals have an excuse for not helping the lion except the mouse.
It was published as both a regular golden book (the cover art varies a little over the years) and as a giant golden book.
Next Spring an Oriole, by Gloria Whelan.
Next Spring an Oriole, by Gloria Whelan.
1950’s picture book line drawings about injured toys
Or, actually, a better guess would be the sequel, ‘Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa’ (which contains an elephant).
I’m looking for a book I read as a child in the 90’s. It had multiple stories of teddy bears and other soft toys. I remember a detective bear who helped a little girl go to sleep, an animal who ate a lot but gave all her food to an elephant waiting for a train and a little girl who thought her soft toys came to life at night and was scared of the crocodile.
Hi! I am looking for a book that I thought was from the little house on the prairie series but I can’t find this specific plot point in any plot summaries from the books, so it must be from something else… The plot point I remember has to do with the family (consisting of mother, father, and a daughter) traveling in a wagon with their aunt, uncle, and cousins in another wagon and they catch head lice from them. The mom and daughter end up having to cut their long hair, and it’s very sad. They leave their hair on a tree branch so birds can use it to make nests, and I think the dad secretly takes a loc of the mother’s hair because he knows she’ll miss it.
Could it be ‘Elizabeth and Larry’ by Marilyn Sadler?
Where does the mermaid come into it? (Are Coral and her mother mermaids?)
Probably ‘Doctor De Soto’ by William Steig.
Aesop’s mouse and the lion, where the lion spares the mouse who later gnaws away at the net of the captured lion, has many retellings. This is a nice fairly modern one illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. https://www.eccpct.com/Customer-Content/www/CMS/files/5_Book_Review_The_Lion_and_the_Mouse.pdf There is also the Greek story of Androcles and the lion, where the slave removes a thorn from the lion’s paw, same result and there are many retellings of that; I think some used animal characters instead of Androcles. If you can remember about when the story would have been published, if it was a stand alone picture book, if it had colored illustrations, that could help us to ID it.
Hello, I didn’t add that sentence at the top. I just wonder if it was generated automatically or if you added it. I think you made this request previously and it is fine to repeat requests after a few days since we have no indexing system.
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I’m looking for a children’s book where a large animal (like an elephant, bear, alligator or crocodile) is upset/angry/grumpy. The large animal is helped by a small animal to fix something that has been causing the large animal pain like a thorn in a foot or a toothache. I’d like to find it for my grand kids, but I can’t remember the details about what type of animals or what the small animal did to help the large animal.
I’m trying to find the name of a hardcover childrens book (larger book, like 9×13”) from the 1980s…the cover had two children on it looking doe eyed into a forest. I’m thinking they were siblings, maybe Matthew and Jenny? And the book was about them walking through the woods…anyone??
Looking for a child book from the 80s or 90s. Mainly yellow and had an alligator on the cover with something reflective in its mouth
Hello everyone! My sister and I are artists and we’re looking for an old mermaid book that sparked our artistic side.
1. I feel like it’s from the 90s.
2. I don’t quite remember well but the girl’s name is Coral/Pearl (or she’s looking for a pearl?)
3. The little girl’s hair is short (above the shoulder), blonde, and curly.
4.. She and her mother were separated by a huge wave (???)
5. The illustration style of the book is watercolor. The page is white, and the illustrations are placed on differents parts of the page.
6. I remember a line calling out the little girl’s name “Coral! Coral!”
7. It’s either the little girl or her mother who mistook the other’s hair as seaweed while looking for each other. If anybody knows, we would be so grateful! Thank you so much for a response!
This might be the Araboolies of Liberty Street, by Sam Swope. It haunted me for about 30 years and I would have described it exactly the same way.
It’s not A Flock of Shoes by Sarah Tsiang, is it? It matches the walking shoes but it might be too new (2011).
Hi, I don’t know whether anyone is able to help. I’m looking for a children’s book that was read to my Mum in the 1950s. It was about a child who stood beneath a blossom tree with a sheep. The blossom fell and covered the child in petals which looked like round spots. The child then thought he/ she had chicken pox! If anyone has any idea as to the title of this book, I would be so grateful. Thanks so much.
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I recently listed a pile of these on my website, very nice but not the ones you are looking for. In the process I did some research on how best to label them so they could be found on Abe. Use the title field on the ABE Advance Search and then run through your titles or just use the authors. The most common terms are “dustjacket only” and “dustwrapper only” but you might as well try “dj only” “wrapper only” and “jacket only” which will get the separate words and “book jacket or wrapper” as well. Unfortunately you can’t list a string of terms in quotation marks in the abe title field, it conflates them. It will take a while to find these, you could try leaving a Want. I would just skip Amazon for this level of search!
If you are interested in price ranges to expect here’s my list https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/searchResults.php?category_id=262&action=browse&orderBy=
Suzanne–Thank you so much for being helpful–and for taking the time to look into my query and reply. I will scope out your books! Best, Lance
Good luck with this. I was surprised at how may dustjackets listed separately are out there. Most must come from libraries where they once used to remove the jacket and then rebind the book. Biblio also has an excellent search engine, but I’m afraid most dealers who list there also list on Abe. Maybe not…
Indeed–crazy–people must be like me….squirrelling them away when the find them…and so many of the booksellers on alibris, amazon and even some now on ABA will not respond to questions about the details of the book (“as they are all in a warehouse”). That is why this blog chat is so nice! =) Real people who love books.
Hi i hope someone can help me. I am trying to remember the name of a old hard back children’s book: the cover was woven like, green with a strabge gold mark on the spine, it was a picture book about a wizard/ warlock who had enslaved and mutated all the creatures of an under sea kingdom and catured the princess, a “savior” saved them by tricking the warlock and cutting open a special fish (i believe taking a red jewel/heart) and saving them all.
i’m looking for a book i read when i was about five, and nobody knows what i’m talking about! i remember it being about this little blonde girl who was up past her bedtime and she sees her shoes walk out of the shoes by themselves. i remember there being a crescent moon with a face in the book somewhere. i’m pretty sure the cover was blue and the title was light purple.
This is Weslandia, by Paul Fleischman!!
Hello! I am looking for a children’s book with wonderful illustrations from the 80s/90s. It was about an animal (I think racoon, but maybe another type) who would make inventions for his friends. He made an apparatus for octopus so he could walk on land; he made something for snake to keep warm so he could see snow… I am hoping someone else remembers this wonderful book!
Good day! I am having a hard time finding these children’s picture books to complete two collections. Any information and help is greatly appreciated and I would pay anyone who can lead me to any of them. I am looking only for first printings that are accompanied by the appropriate DJ. Thank you very much!
Bill Peet (author): “Randy’s Dandy Lions” (w/DJ), “The Ant and the Elephant” (w/DJ), “The Countdown to Christmas” (w/DJ…I have the book but not the DJ that I know came at least with the library version).
Miriam Young, author (Arnold Lobel-illustrator): Purple Press’ 40th Anniversary reprint (2004 version) of “Miss Suzzy.” (w/DJ…I have found many printings from 2nd onward–but have not located a 1st printing).
Happy New Year—sorry I could not help with identifying any of the books below. Thank you!
The Rain Door, by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
This is the very one! Thank you!!!
You’re welcome!
The Rain Door, by Rssell Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
I am looking to identify a children’s picture book. I would have found this book at a public library about 1991. In the book the main character builds a contraption out of junk in a junk yard. I seem to remember a sand/dirt flat landscape where this takes place. He builds a mechanized dinosaur (I remember it being the shape of a skeleton, possibly containing one actual bone?!) that he can ride like a bicycle. I don’t remember any important parts of the plot, any words from the title or the authors name. I have been through the exact public library and combed through the entire children’s section but have not ever found this book again. I remember the illustrations to be in the style of Roald Dahl. Hoping someone in here has some slight memory of this!
There was a picture book I read, I think it must have been published in the 90’s, maybe 80’s? Probably in the US. It was about a blue kid who has a round furry body with a face on it with a round nose (basically he doesn’t have a neck, he’s just an oval, like Mr. Men), thin limbs and big hands and feet (cartoonish). He swam across the ocean, away from his home and in the process lost his fingers and toes and fur. I don’t really remember anything else or how it ended.
I had this book when I was a kid called “learn to read by/with numbers” and there was another one as well “learn to read by…” something else. The books were brightly coloured (lots of yellow and blue), and had sort of cartoonish bears on them, holding balloons, and lots of photos inside and some short chapters to read. The book about numbers was basically a story about this bear and he was having a birthday party so there was a little story about that and he would be counting his guests, presents etc. So learning reading and numbers with a cute story. And the other book was about reading more so. I totally forget the title or much about it but I learned to read with it and it was so sweet and the illustrations were so nice I wish I could find it again.
Trying to remember a children’s book. I think it was set in Edwardian or Victorian times in England. There was a girl trapped by a magic spell and a boy on a quest to free her by finding a number of silver objects including a silver teapot. These were all thrown into a well or body of water to free her. The story haunts me but I can’t remember the title or author! Thankyou
Maybe one of the Applewhites books by Stephanie S. Tolan?
There’s a childrens book I’m looking for from the 90’s; at least, I read it as a child in the mid 90’s. I remember frogs in rain gear, and a dragon slide of sorts? I know, super general, I’m so sorry. I’ve tried everything and cannot find anything on it. I believe it was purchased at a scholastic elementary school book fair.